Costs and Credits

CREDIT

Where CCSP is an approved off-campus program CCSP is effectively an extension campus of your home institution and your school grants the academic credit for program participation. In other words, you receive home instution credit for CCSP courses.  

If CCSP has not yet been approved at your home institution please contact the CCSP office for assistance. For information on whether your college or university has approved the CCSP program for credit please contact the CCSP office. 

Upon completion of all academic requirements transcripts will be sent to your college or university.

RECOMMENDED CREDIT

Belize Program

  • Core courses: 15 credit hours

  • Internship elective: 2 credit hours

Total credit: 15-17 credit hours

New Zealand Program

  • Core courses: 15 credit hours

Total credit: 15 credit hours

COSTS

CCSP invoices campuses for the cost of participation in the program and in turn campuses bill their students following their campus' established policies and procedures.  Each school has different policiies, for example some schools charge the exact fees CCSP charges the school, other schools charge the campus tuition price, while others charge full on-campus fees plus an additional off-campus study fee. And there's every variation in between!.  Therefore, it is best to contact your school's study abroad office to obtain a cost estimate for tuition and room and board to attend CCSP. 

If you are accepted into the program you are required to send in a $300 deposit to secure you place in the semester.  Your deposit is refundable if you attend the program, and is non-refundable if you do not attend.  If you attend the program this deposit becomes your semester cash account and security deposit.  In other words you can charge miscellaneous program costs to this deposit  (see examples below) and you will receive the balance after the program has ended.

What's included in your program fee?

Your program fee covers tuition, all program related field trips, and room and board during the semester except for the nine day mid-semester break period (which is comprised of two weekends and the intervening work week).  During the mid-semester break the campus is closed and students are responsible for accomodation, board, and travel during this personal travel period.

Students are also responsible for airfare to and from the program (unless you attend a school that includes travel as a part of their study abroad policies).  Students traveling to New Zealand have an option to join a group ticket that offers considerable savings.  Details about the group ticket are provided in the acceptance information that students receive after they have been accepted into the program.  

Other miscellaneos costs include:

  • The required International Student Identification Card (ISIC card) that provides among other benefits, special insurance if you were to need a medical evacuation back to the United States. (currenly $22, but subject to change)
  • Student visa (Belize students only) which currently costs $25 and is deductable from your $300 program deposit.
  • Library Reserved Book Fee of $75.  To help save students costs CCSP has class sets of some textbooks.  Thus, instead of buying and transporting bulky textbooks CCSP charges students a library reserve fee for class sets of some textbooks.  You will still need to buy some textbooks, but with this system you buy less books that you otherwise would need to.  So it's a good deal!